Health & fitness

SHNS Health and Fitness is a weekly package of useful articles geared toward educating consumers on important health-related issues. On average, 6 to 8 stories post each week. Includes photos.

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Gains made in treating premature babies with dangerous stomach condition bc-preemies-disease(sh) | By: ANYA SOSTEK | Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | Health and Fitness (AH) May 24, 2013 3:00 PM By ANYA SOSTEK It's one of the unsolved mysteries in modern medicine: a stomach condition that strikes the tiniest babies with potentially devastating consequences. For years, doctors have known that necrotizing enterocolitis occurs much less freq
Counterfeit drugs pose consumer risks, experts say bc-fake-drugs(sh) | By: CRISTIN SEVERANCE | Source: KGTV-TV | National (AN), Health and Fitness (AH) May 24, 2013 2:35 PM By CRISTIN SEVERANCE The prescription medicine you get online or from your pharmacy could be fake -- and harmful. The World Health Organization estimates that 25 percent of drugs consumed in poor countries are counterfeit or substandard. Some inter
Disease outbreaks at VA would require reporting, bills propose bc-va-diseasereport(sh) | By: DAVID TEMPLETON | Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | National (AN), Health and Fitness (AH) May 24, 2013 10:55 AM By DAVID TEMPLETON Veterans Administration medical centers would be required to report infectious disease outbreaks to the appropriate public health officials, two bills have proposed this month in Congress. The bills come in the wake of a Legionn
deafReview gives voice to deaf consumers bc-deafReview(sh) | By: ALYSA HULLETT | Source: The Seattle Times | Health and Fitness (AH), Consumer Issues (LC) May 23, 2013 3:15 PM By ALYSA HULLETT From picking up dry cleaning to picking up coffee, Melissa "Echo" Greenlee spent years struggling with the everyday tasks hearing people take advantage of every day. Some people ignored Greenlee. Others rolled their eyes. Greenlee
Photos illustrate how National Weather Service forecast path of wildfire smoke bc-wildfire-track(sh) | By: LEE BOWMAN | Source: Scripps Howard News Service | National (AN), Health and Fitness (AH), Science & Technology (AS), Special (LL) May 22, 2013 1:30 PM By LEE BOWMAN WILDFIRETRACK1 - The National Weather Service and several partner agencies plot wildfires and their toll from estimates of dry brush on the ground to images of resulting smoke plumes taken from satellites orbiting the Earth. Forecasts
Wildfire season opens as evidence of health risks rise bc-wildfire(sh) | By: LEE BOWMAN | Source: Scripps Howard News Service | National (AN), Health and Fitness (AH), Science & Technology (AS), Special (LL) May 22, 2013 1:25 PM By LEE BOWMAN June is usually prime time for Cindy Coopersmith to get out and enjoy the woods and wildlife around Fort Collins, Colo. But last June heralded a summer of smoke. For nearly a month, the High Park fire west of the city generated thick
Tips for coping with the health effects of wildfire smoke bc-wildfire-tips(sh) | By: LEE BOWMAN | Source: Scripps Howard News Service | National (AN), Health and Fitness (AH), Science & Technology (AS), Special (LL) May 22, 2013 1:25 PM By LEE BOWMAN Coping with the health effects of wildfire smoke requires both community cooperation and some individual judgment and ingenuity, experts say. How much smoke we're exposed to depends on a number of things, from the direction the wind
Measuring wildfire smoke levels helps determine risk bc-wildfire-chart(sh) | By: LEE BOWMAN | Source: Scripps Howard News Service | National (AN), Health and Fitness (AH), Science & Technology (AS), Special (LL) May 22, 2013 1:25 PM By LEE BOWMAN Measuring wildfire smoke levels Condition........Air Quality Index........Fine Particulates (24 hr).......Visibility in Miles Good..................0-50........................0-15.4...................................>11............ M
Medical: Cellphones affect health, give signals about it bc-medical-phones(sh) | By: LEE BOWMAN | Source: Scripps Howard News Service | Health and Fitness (AH), Special (LL) May 22, 2013 12:45 PM By LEE BOWMAN Cellphones, essential as they are, get us into trouble sometimes. We text or talk when we're driving or crossing the street, and increase the risk of crippling our thumbs with too much tapping. But researchers are finding even more w
Tai chi instructor says movements eased her pain, asthma bc-taichi(sh) | By: ELAINE MARKOWITZ | Source: Tampa Bay Times | Health and Fitness (AH), Lifestyle (KO) May 22, 2013 11:45 AM By ELAINE MARKOWITZ About a dozen people are moving their arms and legs to the sound of silence. Only the soft voice of their instructor, Debbie Nemeth, occasionally breaks in. "If you can't kick higher, just do a small kick," she says, demonstratin
Bariatric surgery not the end of the struggle bc-bariatricsurgery(sh) | By: LAVINIA RODRIGUEZ | Source: Tampa Bay Times | Health and Fitness (AH) May 22, 2013 11:20 AM By LAVINIA RODRIGUEZ Bariatric surgery such as gastric banding and bypass is being used more and more to treat obesity. These procedures lead to rapid weight loss by restricting the amount you can eat comfortably, by reducing the absorption of nutri
Heart-failure crisis: Statistical trend startling, but problems can be prevented bc-heart-failure(sh) | By: IRENE MAHER | Source: Tampa Bay Times | Health and Fitness (AH) May 21, 2013 4:40 PM By IRENE MAHER If current health trends continue, 8 million Americans will suffer from heart failure by 2030. Treating them will cost $70 billion, according to the American Heart Association, more than double the cost for such patients last year. Th
Patch offers hope for managing peanut allergies bc-peanut-patch(sh) | By: JESSICA TULLY | Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | Health and Fitness (AH) May 21, 2013 1:30 PM By JESSICA TULLY Parents love peanut butter for its simplicity; kids love it for its taste. Yet many children are excluded from eating it for health reasons. At the moment, there is no treatment for peanut allergies. Managing peanut allergies comes
Time to say 'Ta-ta' to the bra? bc-byebyebras(sh) | By: KIM ODE | Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune | Health and Fitness (AH), Lifestyle (KO), Fashion (LF) May 16, 2013 12:10 PM By KIM ODE Cross my heart, we're not making this up, even though it flies in the face of conventional wisdom, anatomical reality and the billions of dollars raked in last year by Victoria's Secret: Wearing a bra might actually make your breasts sag.
Pearls of wisdom from a fourth-grader bc-happiness(sh) | By: HEATHER TEMPESTA | Source: Tampa Bay Times | Health and Fitness (AH), Lifestyle (KO), Family/Relationships (LY) May 15, 2013 3:02 PM By HEATHER TEMPESTA "How do you know if someone is happy?" my 10-year-old blurted out on a recent quiet drive to school. I took the parental lazy way out -- ahem -- the opportunity to turn it around on him. "How do YOU know when someone is happy?" H
The menace of addiction knows no bounds bc-menaceofaddiction(sh) | By: BILL STEVENS | Source: Tampa Bay Times | Health and Fitness (AH) May 15, 2013 1:25 PM By BILL STEVENS Pat Mulieri has achieved uncommon success in her 75 years, the last 18 as a Pasco County, Fla., commissioner. She earned a doctoral degree and taught college English for 26 years. She is known for a kind heart, for aiding the poor an
Medical: Distractions increase surgeons' potential for mistakes bc-medical-distract(sh) | By: LEE BOWMAN | Source: Scripps Howard News Service | Health and Fitness (AH), Special (LL) May 15, 2013 9:50 AM By LEE BOWMAN Just how much attention your surgeon pays to tasks in the operating room can be affected by a number of distractions, recent research suggests. First off, operating rooms are not libraries. Equipment can be noisy, colleagues chatty and
Profile: An appointment with Travis Stork of 'The Doctors' bc-profile-stork(sh) | By: PATRICIA SHERIDAN | Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | Health and Fitness (AH), Television (ET), People & Celebrities (EP) May 14, 2013 4:55 PM By PATRICIA SHERIDAN His first experience in the public eye was during season eight of "The Bachelor," where he looked for love on reality TV. But Dr. Travis Stork didn't end up finding his true love there. An emergency-room doctor in his off-screen
Followers of quantified self' movement collect data on bodily functions bc-quantifiedself(sh) | By: ALLIE SHAH | Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune | National (AN), Health and Fitness (AH) May 13, 2013 3:05 PM By ALLIE SHAH Jared Sieling's first experiment was on his diet. For weeks, he diligently recorded everything he ate until the data revealed a nutritional gap: not enough protein. Next, he strapped on a device to monitor his activity level. The num
Brasher: Make sunscreen part of your daily routine bc-out-sunscreen(sh) | By: BRYAN BRASHER | Source: Scripps Howard News Service | Health and Fitness (AH), Recreation (BO), Sports Columns (TN) May 13, 2013 11:45 AM By BRYAN BRASHER Sunscreen every day helps keep skin cancer away A few months ago, my wife discovered a spot on my back that looked a little different from all of the others. It was shaped like a circle and a little bigger than a pencil eraser, wi
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